15 years ago, the argument was "stop doing pan-and-scan to fill the 4x3 screen, studios need to show movies in their original aspect ratio." Now it's "stop showing things in their original aspect ratio, studios need to fill the 16x9 screen."

The argument from the unwashed masses has always been "why is my movie not filling the whole screen?"; it's just that the aspect ratios have flipped.

Hey, they paid a lot of money for them pixels to glow on the flatscreen, so THEY NEED TO GLOW!